Buddha’s Field

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Snatch the seeds from our hand grasshoppers and repeat after us, “Life is but an illusion”.

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Just south of Vientiane, along the muddy meandering path of that coffee coloured Mother of antiquity, the Mekong, a colossal field of Buddhas lies dreaming.

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This glorious and apparently ancient field is in fact a modern illusion begun in 1958 by Buddhist Priest/Shaman Luang Pu who dreamt of a synthesis between Buddhism and Hinduism.  So a concrete cavalcade of deities was born, Bhuddas, Angels, Demons and animals frolic across the field.

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Some are made of rock…others are born to rock.

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Some seem somehow strangely familiar

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Some snap and some pose

 

 

 

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Kristen and Billy sprang from the loins of 4 heroic ancestors. They roamed the Earth separately for an Age, playing the zither, predicting earthquakes, calling bingo games, eating sponge cakes, and watching old movies on tv. They were schooled by the Dominicans and the Christian Bros, what taught them their letters and scribbling skills. So, rudely equipped, and with a missal full of hymns in their hearts they stepped forth into the world. Kristen and Billy tried to keep the hippy flame alive as they strove and stumbled through work, like Kane from Kung-Fu crossed with Pollyanna, finding both good and evil in the hearts of men, ( but mainly good). They filled out time sheets and instead of villains punched the clock over and over again. Finally, the dark clouds parted, the sun shone through, they met each other, stopped punching and started living. Now they are two wide eyed, clickety hipped, post career dislocated hippies looking to get lost in a big wide world.